Hart of Ireland Tour Photos - September 2010

Round tower at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow

Kevin's Kitchen, Glendalough, Co. Wicklow

Hawthorn berries at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow

Taking the cure from a bullaun stone at the "Meeting of the Waters," the rivers Avoca and Avonmore

Music night at the Teachers' Club in Dublin with Jock Burns, concertina; John Kelly, fiddle; and Pat Good, guitar and vocals

Traditional musicians Jock Burns, John Kelly, Jimmy Kelly, Brian McCarthy

Death mask of Jonathan Swift, dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal 

Neolithic burial mounds at Knowth, part of the ancient Brú na Bóinne complex along the Boyne River

Kerbstone at Knowth

From the slopes of Ceide Fields, Co. Mayo, looking out to sea -- part of 5,000-year-old complex of field enclosures

The 4,300-year-old Scots pine tree that dominates the center of the building at Ceide Fields

Harvest knot made from wheat at the Museum of Country Life, outside Castlebar, Co. Mayo

Famine memorial coffin ship, Murrisk, Co. Mayo

Fairy tree, Killary Harbor, Co. Galway

Aunt Betty in the doorway of the old cottage at Rathbaun Farm, Ardrahan, Co. Galway

Window of the old cottage at Rathbaun Farm, Ardrahan, Co. Galway

The Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare

Statuary inside the grotto at Saint Bridget's Well, near Liscannor, Co. Clare

Sile-na-gig at the ruined church of Kilnaboy, Co. Clare

Blackthorn berries on the path to Dun Aengus, Inishmore, Co. Galway

Flower on the path to Dun Aengus, Inishmore, Co. Galway -- can anyone identify this? Last photo I took before falling and breaking my shoulder!

Romanesque doorway at 12th-century Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, Co. Galway

Detail from the Romanesque doorway at Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, Co. Galway

Detail from the Romanesque doorway at Clonfert Cathedral, Clonfert, Co. Galway

A high cross from the monastery at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly

Looking through the window at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly